{"id":16689,"date":"2016-01-19T15:57:16","date_gmt":"2016-01-19T20:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=16689"},"modified":"2016-01-19T15:57:16","modified_gmt":"2016-01-19T20:57:16","slug":"from-grower-to-grocer-building-community-food-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=16689","title":{"rendered":"From grower to grocer: Building community food systems"},"content":{"rendered":"

From grower to grocer: Building community food systems<\/a><\/h3>\n

Across the UK the\u00a0food sovereignty movement<\/a>\u00a0is growing. A budding plethora of networks are challenging the current corporate control of the food system and sowing the seeds of structured community food chains and holistic food economies.<\/p>\n

What roles do these small food chains and alternative distribution networks play within the UK food sovereignty movement? And what further collaborations between the ground, the grower and the grocer are there to be cultivated and nourished?<\/p>\n

Setting up shop\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n

In 2001, a number of organisations came together to generate\u00a0The People\u2019s Food Sovereignty Statement<\/a><\/em>\u00a0which in part, calls for the development of \u201clocal food economies based on local production and processing, and the development of local food outlets<\/a>.<\/a>\u201d Within this framework\u00a0The New Leaf Co-op<\/a>, a whole-food store and\u00a0workers co-operative<\/a>\u00a0in Edinburgh, of which I am a founding member, is one example of a growing network of small businesses that are seeking ways to connect spade and spoon.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a><\/p>\n

Consumer and worker food co-ops, markets and online food distribution hubs are cropping up around the UK. Their aim is to satisfy an increasing demand, from both producers and communities of eaters, to make accessible fairly grown, fairly traded and fairly priced local produce.<\/p>\n

Under a food sovereignty framework, these small-scale grassroot outlets prioritise working with equally small-scale growers and producers (both locally and further afield), independent wholesalers and co-operative food networks.<\/p>\n

Getting to market<\/h3>\n

The food sovereignty movement advocates for democratic control of an\u00a0agr<\/a>oecological food system<\/a>\u00a0by the communities who grow, produce, trade and eat food. Small-scale food economies cannot compete with agribusiness, supermarket conglomerates and the industrialised food system \u2013 nor does it aim to. Often unable \u2013 and in many cases unwilling \u2013 to meet the terms, conditions and pricing demands of supermarkets, co-op, hubs and online distribution networks provide a much more accessible and fairer way for small producers to sell their goods.<\/p>\n

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From grower to grocer: Building community food systems Across the UK the\u00a0food sovereignty movement\u00a0is growing. A budding plethora of networks are challenging the current corporate control of the food system and sowing the seeds of structured community food chains and holistic food economies. What roles do these small food chains and alternative distribution networks play […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[11835,319,6512,1943,7276,6867,820],"class_list":["post-16689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-community-food-system","tag-food","tag-food-movement","tag-food-sovereignty","tag-food-systems","tag-sustainable-food-trust","tag-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16689"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16690,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16689\/revisions\/16690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}